Yamal is among leaders on the level of rendering of surgical help to population

The National Medical Research Center of Surgery named after A.V. Vishnevsky at the Ministry of health of Russia presented the rating assessment of organizing of work of surgical services in Russian regions. Among the leaders there are: Tyumen Oblast, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (Yugra) and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. According to the study, the top ten also include Moscow, Stavropol Krai, Arkhangelsk Oblast, the Republic of Khakasiya, Krasnodar Krai, Belgorod Oblast, the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Surgical services of the regions were evaluated on such indicators as medical personnel, availability of surgical beds, indicators of emergency surgery of the abdominal cavity, purulent surgery, endoscopy, outpatient surgery and the most frequently performed operations in the planned manner.

The surgical service of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is headed by Igor Antonenko, the chief of the surgical department of the regional hospital in Salekhard, candidate of medical sciences. Surgeons of Yamal possess modern technologies of surgical care with use of endoscopic technologies in surgery, urology, thoracic surgery, the full range of vascular operations on the main vessels. Modern schemes of medicamentous and extracorporeal treatment in surgery of complications are introduced on the basis of the hospital departments. Providing surgery departments and operating units with equipment in large towns of the region corresponds to international standards ensuring safety and effectiveness of treatment.